Reception Rome is pleased to present To Avoid an Infinite Loop by Cati Bestard Rotger, an exhibition that investigates repetition not as an error but as a method, and photography not as representation but as process. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Italy and will be a central part of the gallery’s program from winter through late spring. In keeping with the gallery’s approach, the exhibition unfolds in three acts—interconnected yet distinct—through which Bestard Rotger explores, via a multiplicity of multimedia works, the repetition and reuse of ideas, images, and, inevitably, materials.

 

An “unintended infinite loop” is almost always a bug—an error caused by flawed logic that results in the indefinite repetition of a program, ultimately blocking it and consuming resources. What produces this malfunction is the absence of a termination condition: an instruction capable of interrupting the loop once specific parameters are met. To avoid this “error,” Bestard Rotger’s practice develops as a reflection on waste, excess, or residue, revisiting the same ideas from ever-shifting perspectives, not to generate copies but variations.

 

For To Avoid an Infinite Loop, Bestard Rotger presents works in three evolving acts:

 

Act I: Shifted 15.01 - 21.02.2026

Act II: Recurrences 27.02 - 04.04.2026

Act III: Nothing Disappears 10.04 - 22.05.2026

 

Cati Bestard Rotger is a visual artist from Mallorca, Spain, working primarily with photography. Her practice explores the potential of untold narratives and nonviable materialities. She earned her MFA from Columbia University in 2018. Her work has been exhibited at Ulterior Gallery (New York), Centre Cultural La Misericòrdia (Mallorca, Spain), La Capella (Barcelona), ChaShaMa (New York), Crush Curatorial (Amagansett, NY), Times Square Space (New York), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), and Untitled (Miami), among others. She has participated in residencies at the Institute of Investigative Living with Andrea Zittel (Joshua Tree, California), Hercules Art Studio Program (New York), Art Workspace (Easthampton, MA), and Penumbra Foundation (New York). In 2023, she published her first photobook Ca s’abuela, which was presented in Mallorca, Massachusetts, and New York. Bestard Rotger currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and teaches art at Smith College.